Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, September 20, 1995 TAG: 9509200049
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
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DATELINE: CHARLESTON, W.VA. LENGTH: Short
The justices voted 5-0 in rejecting the petition of Tracy Lippard, 24, of Newport News.
She was sentenced in January to two years in prison for a February 1994 attack on the Lewisburg family of Melissa Weikle, who was pregnant by a former boyfriend of Lippard's.
Lippard crowned her successor as Miss Williamsburg in February 1994, then drove 250 miles to Lewisburg the next day, according to testimony.
She was convicted of threatening Weikle's mother with a pistol and hitting Weikle's father with a hammer before the father subdued her.
Lippard denied attacking the family, saying she traveled to confront her former boyfriend, Todd Scott. Scott and Melissa Weikle have since married.
George Yates, a lawyer for Lippard, argued that jury selection was done too quickly and the questioning was too cursory to rid the panel of jurors who favored the prosecution.
- Associated Press
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